Word: thrace
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgrade's dispatches been true, the Greeks would have been victorious in no time. On the first day of the war, Turkey was said to have declared war against Italy, Turkish troops were said to be entering Thrace. On the second day, Britons were said to have landed in force at Salonika (three days' sailing time from Alexandria, the nearest British base). By the third day a revolt in Albania was said to have reached serious proportions: 3,000-4,000 well-armed rebels were said to be cutting Italian communications from the rear. All this time Greek...
...demands. First there were the two minor problems of Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to be dealt with. Bulgaria's Coburg King Boris was primarily pro-neutrality and then, oddly enough, pro-British, but most Bulgarians were ready to shout for the side that could produce the Dobruja and promise Thrace...
...Greece's Premier-Dictator John Metaxas and Yugoslavia's Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch to go to Rome for an "Italian Salzburg," at which Albania (as nominee for Italy) would get Dalmatia and at least a part of Epirus, Bulgaria would get a corridor to the Aegean Sea through Thrace, thereby cutting off Greece from her ally, Turkey, and softening her up for further demands...